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These cards are offered as an educational resource for
contemplating the 99 Names of God found within Islam. Designed to
appeal to young and old alike, each card has the following
features: A Name of Allah in beautiful Arabic script. A
translation, transliteration, and pronunciation guide for the Name.
An illustrated sign of the Name we can witness in the world around
or within us. A suggestion for exploring the Name using action,
reflection, consultation, meditation, research, or reference to the
Quran.The cards are based on material from the book, The 99 Names
of God.
The Compassionate (ar-Rahman), the Holy (al-Quddus), the Source of
Peace (as-Salam), the Supreme (al-Mutakabbir)...these are just a
few of the 99 Names of God to be found in Islam. It has been said
that knowledge of Allah's Beautiful Names is the greatest knowledge
a human being can possess.;This illustrated guide to the Names is
designed to be an engaging educational resource for all the family.
For children it is a rich treasury of wonder that will reveal
greater depths as they grow and mature, whilst for parents and
teachers it will offer much to inspire, inform, and remind. Richly
illustrated and accompanied by engaging reflections and activities,
this book is offered as a guide to help us witness the Divine
Majesty and Beauty.
Negotiations are central to the ethos and functioning of the
European Union, yet the dynamics of EU negotiations have received
far too little systematic scholarly attention. This volume offers a
thematic and forward-looking survey of cutting-edge research on EU
negotiation dynamics, identifying findings to date and setting an
empirical and methodological agenda for future research. The
chapters by leading international experts address a wide range of
critical questions in this area, including: What factors influence
negotiation behaviour and outcomes in the EU? How can we explain
variation in the choice of negotiation styles? When do actors
engage in arguing or bargaining? What are the determinants of
bargaining power? What are the institutional foundations of EU
negotiations? And what role does the presidency play in EU
negotiations? The volume also discusses how the findings of the
multi-disciplinary field of negotiation studies' can inform
research on negotiation dynamics in the EU. The volume will be of
great interest to established scholars and advanced students of
international relations, European integration and governance, and
negotiation analysis. This book was based on a special issue of
Journal of European Public Policy.
Negotiations are central to the ethos and functioning of the
European Union, yet the dynamics of EU negotiations have received
far too little systematic scholarly attention. This volume offers a
thematic and forward-looking survey of cutting-edge research on EU
negotiation dynamics, identifying findings to date and setting an
empirical and methodological agenda for future research. The
chapters by leading international experts address a wide range of
critical questions in this area, including: What factors influence
negotiation behaviour and outcomes in the EU? How can we explain
variation in the choice of negotiation styles? When do actors
engage in arguing or bargaining? What are the determinants of
bargaining power? What are the institutional foundations of EU
negotiations? And what role does the presidency play in EU
negotiations? The volume also discusses how the findings of the
multi-disciplinary field of 'negotiation studies' can inform
research on negotiation dynamics in the EU. The volume will be of
great interest to established scholars and advanced students of
international relations, European integration and governance, and
negotiation analysis. This book was based on a special issue of
Journal of European Public Policy.
Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child
consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children's
moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral
Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel
Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century
United States meticulously managed their children's needs and
wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to
produce the "child" as a moral project. Drawing on a century of
religiously-oriented child care advice in women's periodicals, he
examines how children ultimately came to be understood by
mothers-and later, by commercial actors-as consumers. From concerns
about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and
toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood,
historical anxieties about childhood, and early children's consumer
culture. An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides
a rich cultural history of childhood.
Essays examining how punishment operated in England, from c.600 to
the Norman Conquest. Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished
lawbreakers with harsh corporal penalties, such as execution,
mutilation and imprisonment. Despite their severity, however, these
penalties were not arbitrary exercises of power. Rather, theywere
informed by nuanced philosophies of punishment which sought to
resolve conflict, keep the peace and enforce Christian morality.
The ten essays in this volume engage legal, literary, historical,
and archaeological evidence to investigate the role of punishment
in Anglo-Saxon society. Three dominant themes emerge in the
collection. First is the shift from a culture of retributive feud
to a system of top-down punishment, in which penalties were imposed
by an authority figure responsible for keeping the peace. Second is
the use of spectacular punishment to enhance royal standing, as
Anglo-Saxon kings sought to centralize and legitimize their power.
Third is the intersectionof secular punishment and penitential
practice, as Christian authorities tempered penalties for material
crime with concern for the souls of the condemned. Together, these
studies demonstrate that in Anglo-Saxon England, capital and
corporal punishments were considered necessary, legitimate, and
righteous methods of social control. Jay Paul Gates is Assistant
Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in The City
University of New York; Nicole Marafioti is Assistant Professor of
History and co-director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Program at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Contributors:
Valerie Allen, Jo Buckberry, Daniela Fruscione, Jay Paul Gates,
Stefan Jurasinski, Nicole Marafioti, Daniel O'Gorman, Lisi Oliver,
Andrew Rabin, Daniel Thomas.
Ours is a culture defined by marketing and acquiring. Virtually
every activity in our lives is experienced through purchases, from
layettes to caskets. The landscape is studded with logos, brand
names, and billboards. Branded and On Display examines the work of
artists who explore specific strategies of branding and
presentation in their response to this pervasively commoditized
environment. Representing a range of media - sculpture, video,
installation, sound, painting, and photography - the work is
compelling and provocative, nudging us to "re-view" our culture
with an appraising eye. There is an exhilarating range of concerns
and media represented by artists Ai Weiwei, Conrad Bakker, Amy
Barkow, Ashley Bickerton, Michael Blum, Louis Cameron, Diller +
Scofidio, Terence Gower, Laurie Hogin, Pierre Huyghe, Clay Ketter,
Ryan McGinness, Donna Nield, Haim Steinbach, Tempi & Wolf,
Yuken Teruya, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Siebren Versteeg,
and Zhao Bandi. Daniel Thomas Cook is a sociologist of advertising
and communication at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Nine stories by Dung Kai-cheung, an author and
teacher of creative writing in Hong Kong, were translated by Winnie
Won Yin Wong. Other contributors include Ginger Gregg Duggan,
Judith Hoos Fox, Cele C. Otnes, and Linda M. Scott.
As a result of the increasing number of surgical procedures on the
brain, head, neck, and spine, postoperative changes are being
encountered more frequently on neuroradiological examinations.
However, these findings are often unfamiliar to neuroradiologists
and neurosurgeons and can be difficult to interpret. This book,
which contains numerous images and to-the-point case descriptions,
is a comprehensive yet concise reference guide to postsurgical
neuroradiology. It will enable the reader to identify the type of
surgery performed and the hardware implanted and to differentiate
expected sequelae from complications. Topics reviewed include
trauma, tumors, vascular disorders, and infections of the head,
neck, and spine; cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities; and
degenerative diseases of the spine. This book will serve as a
unique and convenient resource for both neuroradiologists and
neurosurgeons.
Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child
consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children's
moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral
Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel
Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century
United States meticulously managed their children's needs and
wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to
produce the "child" as a moral project. Drawing on a century of
religiously-oriented child care advice in women's periodicals, he
examines how children ultimately came to be understood by
mothers-and later, by commercial actors-as consumers. From concerns
about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and
toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood,
historical anxieties about childhood, and early children's consumer
culture. An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides
a rich cultural history of childhood.
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